Sparkasse 01 - Frankfurt Main 2022

The face of Frankfurt's central business district is constantly changing. The city council's skyscraper master plan limits the possible spaces for high rises in Frankfurt to only a handful of locations, most of them are in the CBD. These rare grounds are strongly fought. Thus, only a few "old" places are to be expected within these areas. One of those "urban relicts" is  Neue Mainzer Straße 57-59. In the past the address was the the headquarters of the Frankfurter Sparkasse 1822, a savings bank with regional ties. 20 years ago the buildings there were left abandoned.

The whole area contains three abandoned buildings in total: one is a neoclassical house build in Germany's founding period, then there is a 16-stories tall office tower from the 1960th, as well as another office building with a curved facade also from the 1960th.